IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

From the perspective of an information security researcher and consultant who studied crime for 40 years, this brief history of computer crime delves into study methods and presents findings from many years of National Science Foundation and US department of justice grant-supported research and business support at SRI International View full abstract»

Computer science originated in the People's Republic of China in 1956 with the founding of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology. The Soviet Union, which played a pivotal role, gave the Chinese the opportunity to learn computer science by supplying components and describing the manufacturing process. The Soviets also helped solve key difficulties and trained workers View full abstract»

The SIM8-01 prototyping board was introduced by Intel in 1972 as a low-cost hardware aid for the development of applications involving Intel's 8008 microprocessor. This article traces the SIM8-01's development at Intel and analyzes its impact on the formation of the first wave of worldwide microcomputer activities View full abstract»

The use of and first courses on computers at Maryland began in the 1940s. The computer science center beginnings are examined in the context of founding director Werner C. Rheinboldt's noteworthy accomplishments to develop a computation facility with research and educational components, supported by John Menard, assistant director. William F. Atchison, who replaced Rheinboldt as Center director, c... View full abstract»

To re-create the University of Alberta's computing milieu of some 40 years ago, this article surveys the university's computational procedures before the arrival of the first computer and discusses the university's acquisition and use of the LGP-30 View full abstract»

In 1959, two Stanford undergraduate electrical engineering students enrolled in Math 139, theory and operation of computing machines, and as a final class project, devised the "Happy Families Planning Service". They used the IBM model 650 computer, pairing up 49 men and 49 women, for the first known computer-date-matched party View full abstract»

Why would anyone try to map the Internet in the first place? What purpose do speculations on the unrealized physical form of amorphous electronic data serve? The straightforward answer is that maps are a handy tool for organizing and communicating large amounts of information. To say one is "on the Internet" today means something much different than it meant 15 years ago, and the rapid pace of cha... View full abstract»